- Docente: Rosa Mulè
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
International Relations (cod. 8782)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students are able to
- apply comparative methods
- critically assess models of welfare states
- elaborate research strategies to analyse social welfare and income inequality
Course contents
Political economy of welfare states
2018-2019
This course examines cross-national variation in welfare states in industrialized countries and especially in Europe. The course is structured around three questions: How do we compare the political economy of welfare states? Why do countries differ in their welfare states models? To what extent do differences in institutional settings, coalition politics and economic systems shape fundamentally different models of welfare states? The methodology is comparative and the focus is on theoretical models and their application using the Luxembourg Income Study Dataset.
Course Procedures and Evaluation
Each student should read the 'required readings' for each class. In some classes ‘further reading’ is intended to provide background introduction to the main readings. Every week students’ group should hand in two questions for discussion.
class participation 10% grade
students’ presentation 25% grade
written paper 65% grade. 5,000 words including references, tables and graphs. Deadline for written paper 21 December 2018
Classes will involve lectures, presentations by guest speakers, and inter-active sessions in which students will have an opportunity to participate.
Textbooks
C. Pierson, F. Castles and I.K.Naumann eds., The welfare state reader, Polity Press, 2013 (and some chapters in 1st edition 2000).
Castles, F., Leibfried, S., Lewis, J., Obinger, H., Pierson,C. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 2010 (e-book).
1. Historical foundations of the welfare state
Required reading
Briggs, A. Welfare State in Historical Perspective, in Reader, 2014.
Further reading
Ferrera, M. The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection, Oxford University Press, 2005, cap. 1 and 2 (Oxford Online).
Ravallion, M. 2015. The Idea of Antipoverty Policy, in A.B.Atkinson and F.Bourguignon, eds. Handbook of Income Distribution, Vol. 2B, chapter 22.
2. Comparing welfare states: METHODS
Required reading
Sartori, G. 1994. Compare Why and How. Comparing, miscomparing and the comparative method, in Dogan, M. K and Kazancigil, A. (eds.) Comparing nations: concepts, strategies and substance, Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
Atkinson, A. B. 2000. The economic consequences of rolling back the welfare state, MIT Press, chps.1, 2.
3. Comparing welfare states models I
Required reading
Esping-Andersen, G. Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, in Reader, 2014.
Arts, W. and Gelissen, J. 2010. Models of the Welfare State. In Castles, F.G. et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press, 569-583.
Gornick,J. and T. Smeeding, 2018. Redistributional policies in rich countries: Institutions and impacts in non-elderly households, Annual review of sociology, 44, 441-68. Only section 4.
4. Comparing welfare states models II
Required readingThe Nordic countries, Kautto, M. in OHWS, chp 40
Continental Western Europe, Palier, B. in OHWS, chp 41
The South European Countries, Ferrera, M. in OHWS, chp. 42.
The English Speaking Countries, Castles, F. in OHWS, chp. 43.
Further reading
Alesina, A. Glaeser, E. and B. Sacerdote, 2001. Why Doesn’t the United States Have a European Style Welfare State?, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2,187-277.
Bartels, L. 2005. Homer Gets a Tax Cut: Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind, Perspectives on Politics, 3,15-31.
Mulé, R. 2016. The South European Welfare State in the New Millennium. Challenges, constraints and prospects for Europeanization, in World Economy and International Relations, 7, 25-36.
5. Comparing welfare states models IIIRequired reading
Deacon, B. and Standing, G. 1993. Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 3, 3, pp. 159-161.
Eastern Europe and Russia, Cook, L. in OHWS, chp. 46.Adascalitei, D. 2017. From Austerity to Austerity: The Political Economy of Public Pension Reforms in Romania and Bulgaria. Social Policy & Administration, 51, 464– 487.
Naczyk, M. and Domonkos, S. 2016. The Financial Crisis and Varieties of Pension Privatization Reversals in Eastern Europe. Governance, 29, 167–184.Further reading
Deacon, B. 2000. Eastern European welfare states: the impact of the politics of globalization, Journal of European Social Policy, 10, 146-161.
Sotiropoulos D., Neamtu I., Stoyanova M. 2003. The Trajectory of Post-communist Welfare State Development: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania, Social Policy and Administration, 37.
East Asia, I.Peng and J. Wong, in OHWS, chapter 45.
6. Gender and the welfare state
Required reading
Orloff, A.S. Gender, in OHWS, chp. 17.
Alpern Engel, B. 2004. Women in Russia 1700-2000. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chapters 12 and 13.
Rhein, W. 1998. The feminization of poverty: unemployment in Russia, Journal of International Affairs, 52, 1, pp.351-366.
Further reading
Sainsbury, D. (ed). 1999. Gender and welfare state regimes, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
7. Welfare state in Europe
Required reading
Ferrera, M. The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection, Oxford University Press, 2005 chap 4 and 6. (Oxford Online). Jon Kvist and Juho Saari, The Europeanization of Social Protection: Domestic Impacts and National Responses, in Reader 2014.Scharpf, F. Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control, in Reader 2000.
Troshkov, D. 2007, Transposition of EU social policy in the new member states. Journal of European Social Policy, 17, 335–348.
Further reading
Leiber, S. 2007. Transposition of EU social policy in Poland: are there different ‘worlds of compliance’ in East and West? Journal of European Social Policy, 17, 349–360.
Scharpf,F. 2010.The Asymmetry of European Integration, or why the EU cannot be a ‘social market economy’. Socio-Economic Review, 8, 211-250.
Lendvai, N. and Stubbs, P. 2015. Europeanization, Welfare and Variegated Austerity Capitalisms – Hungary and Croatia. Social Policy & Administration, 49, 445–465.
8-10. Political, social and economic challenges to the welfare state
Electoral politics
Required reading
Manow, P. Bruno Palier, and Hanna Schwander (ed.), 2018, Welfare Democracies and Party Politics. Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism , Oxford University Press, 2018, Introduction.
Taylor-Gooby, P.(2017) Re-Doubling the Crises of the Welfare State: The impact of Brexit on UK welfare politics Journal of Social Policy , Vol. 46, 4, 815-835.
Weisstanner,D. and K. Armingeon How redistributive policies reduce market inequality: Education premiums in 22 OECD countries [http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/735.pdf] Apr - 2018 LIS working papers series - No. 735
Migration
Required reading
Castles, S. and Schierup, C-U., Migration, minorities and the welfare state, in Reader, 2014.
Further reading
Diane, S. 2012. Welfare states and immigrant rights: the politics of inclusion and exclusion, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Oxford Online).
Naumann, E., Stoetzer, L.(2018) Immigration and support for redistribution: survey experiments in three European countries West European Politics, Vol. 41, 1: 80-101.
New Social Risks
Required reading
Bonoli, G. 2007. Time Matters: Postindustrialisation, New Social Risks, and Welfare State Adaptation in Advanced Industrial Democracies’, Comparative Political Studies, 40, 495-520.
Globalization, financial crisis and welfare state sustainability
Required reading
Vis, B., van Kersbergen, K. and Hylands, T. 2011. To What Extend Did the Financial Crisis Intensify the Pressure to Reform the Welfare State?, Social Policy and Administration,45, 338-353.
Szikra, D. 2014. Democracy and welfare in hard times: The social policy of the Orbán Government in Hungary between 2010 and 2014. Journal of European Social Policy, 24(5), 486 –500.
Further reading
Sacchi, S. and J. Roh, 2016. Conditionality, austerity and welfare: Financial crisis and its impact on welfare in Italy and Korea. Journal of European Social Policy, 26, 358-373.
Bacchetta, M. and M. Jansen (eds.) 2011. Making globalization socially sustainable. International labour Office- World Trade Organization. (available online).
Welfare state and terrorism
Required reading
Krieger. T., Meierrieks, D. 2010. Terrorism in the worlds of welfare capitalism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 54, 902-939.
Further reading
Burgoon, B. 2006. On welfare and terror: Social welfare policies and political-economic roots of terrorism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50, 176-203.
Mulé. R. 2018. The political economy of violence and terrorism. Why less income inequality matters, paper presented at the conferenceInequality and Innovation, Bologna University, 21-22 June.
Readings/Bibliography
Political economy of welfare states
2018-2019
This course examines cross-national variation in welfare states in industrialized countries and especially in Europe. The course is structured around three questions: How do we compare the political economy of welfare states? Why do countries differ in their welfare states models? To what extent do differences in institutional settings, coalition politics and economic systems shape fundamentally different models of welfare states? The methodology is comparative and the focus is on theoretical models.
Course Procedures and Evaluation
Each student should read the 'required readings' for each class. In some classes ‘further reading’ is intended to provide background introduction to the main readings. Every week students’ group should hand in two questions for discussion.
class participation 10% grade
students’ presentation 25% grade
written paper 65% grade. 5,000 words including references, tables and graphs. Deadline for written paper 21 December 2018
Textbooks
C. Pierson, F. Castles and I.K.Naumann eds., The welfare state reader, Polity Press, 2013 (and some chapters in 1st edition 2000).
Castles, F., Leibfried, S., Lewis, J., Obinger, H., Pierson,C. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 2010 (e-book).
1. Historical foundations of the welfare state
Required reading
Briggs, A. Welfare State in Historical Perspective, in Reader, 2014.
Further reading
Ferrera, M. The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection, Oxford University Press, 2005, cap. 1 and 2 (Oxford Online).
Ravallion, M. 2015. The Idea of Antipoverty Policy, in A.B.Atkinson and F.Bourguignon, eds. Handbook of Income Distribution, Vol. 2B, chapter 22.
2. Comparing welfare states: METHODS
Required reading
Sartori, G. 1994. Compare Why and How. Comparing, miscomparing and the comparative method, in Dogan, M. K and Kazancigil, A. (eds.) Comparing nations: concepts, strategies and substance, Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
Atkinson, A. B. 2000. The economic consequences of rolling back the welfare state, MIT Press, chps.1, 2.
3. Comparing welfare states models I
Required reading
Esping-Andersen, G. Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, in Reader, 2014.
Arts, W. and Gelissen, J. 2010. Models of the Welfare State. In Castles, F.G. et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press, 569-583.
Gornick,J. and T. Smeeding, 2018. Redistributional policies in rich countries: Institutions and impacts in non-elderly households, Annual review of sociology, 44, 441-68. Only section 4.
4. Comparing welfare states models II
Required readingThe Nordic countries, Kautto, M. in OHWS, chp 40
Continental Western Europe, Palier, B. in OHWS, chp 41
The South European Countries, Ferrera, M. in OHWS, chp. 42.
The English Speaking Countries, Castles, F. in OHWS, chp. 43.
Further reading
Alesina, A. Glaeser, E. and B. Sacerdote, 2001. Why Doesn’t the United States Have a European Style Welfare State?, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2,187-277.
Bartels, L. 2005. Homer Gets a Tax Cut: Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind, Perspectives on Politics, 3,15-31.
Mulé, R. 2016. The South European Welfare State in the New Millennium. Challenges, constraints and prospects for Europeanization, in World Economy and International Relations, 7, 25-36.
5. Comparing welfare states models IIIRequired reading
Deacon, B. and Standing, G. 1993. Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 3, 3, pp. 159-161.
Eastern Europe and Russia, Cook, L. in OHWS, chp. 46.Adascalitei, D. 2017. From Austerity to Austerity: The Political Economy of Public Pension Reforms in Romania and Bulgaria. Social Policy & Administration, 51, 464– 487.
Naczyk, M. and Domonkos, S. 2016. The Financial Crisis and Varieties of Pension Privatization Reversals in Eastern Europe. Governance, 29, 167–184.Further reading
Deacon, B. 2000. Eastern European welfare states: the impact of the politics of globalization, Journal of European Social Policy, 10, 146-161.
Sotiropoulos D., Neamtu I., Stoyanova M. 2003. The Trajectory of Post-communist Welfare State Development: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania, Social Policy and Administration, 37.
East Asia, I.Peng and J. Wong, in OHWS, chapter 45.
6. Gender and the welfare state
Required reading
Orloff, A.S. Gender, in OHWS, chp. 17.
Alpern Engel, B. 2004. Women in Russia 1700-2000. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chapters 12 and 13.
Rhein, W. 1998. The feminization of poverty: unemployment in Russia, Journal of International Affairs, 52, 1, pp.351-366.
Further reading
Sainsbury, D. (ed). 1999. Gender and welfare state regimes, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
7. Welfare state in Europe
Required reading
Ferrera, M. The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection, Oxford University Press, 2005 chap 4 and 6. (Oxford Online). Jon Kvist and Juho Saari, The Europeanization of Social Protection: Domestic Impacts and National Responses, in Reader 2014.Scharpf, F. Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control, in Reader 2000.
Troshkov, D. 2007, Transposition of EU social policy in the new member states. Journal of European Social Policy, 17, 335–348.
Further reading
Leiber, S. 2007. Transposition of EU social policy in Poland: are there different ‘worlds of compliance’ in East and West? Journal of European Social Policy, 17, 349–360.
Scharpf,F. 2010.The Asymmetry of European Integration, or why the EU cannot be a ‘social market economy’. Socio-Economic Review, 8, 211-250.
Lendvai, N. and Stubbs, P. 2015. Europeanization, Welfare and Variegated Austerity Capitalisms – Hungary and Croatia. Social Policy & Administration, 49, 445–465.
8-10. Political, social and economic challenges to the welfare state
Migration
Required reading
Castles, S. and Schierup, C-U., Migration, minorities and the welfare state, in Reader, 2014.
Taylor-Gooby, P.(2017) Re-Doubling the Crises of the Welfare State: The impact of Brexit on UK welfare politics Journal of Social Policy , Vol. 46, 4, 815-835.
Further reading
Diane, S. 2012. Welfare states and immigrant rights: the politics of inclusion and exclusion, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Oxford Online).
Naumann, E., Stoetzer, L.(2018) Immigration and support for redistribution: survey experiments in three European countries West European Politics, Vol. 41, 1: 80-101.
New Social Risks
Required reading
Bonoli, G. 2007. Time Matters: Postindustrialisation, New Social Risks, and Welfare State Adaptation in Advanced Industrial Democracies’, Comparative Political Studies, 40, 495-520.
Globalization, financial crisis and welfare state sustainability
Required reading
Vis, B., van Kersbergen, K. and Hylands, T. 2011. To What Extend Did the Financial Crisis Intensify the Pressure to Reform the Welfare State?, Social Policy and Administration,45, 338-353.
Szikra, D. 2014. Democracy and welfare in hard times: The social policy of the Orbán Government in Hungary between 2010 and 2014. Journal of European Social Policy, 24(5), 486 –500.
Further reading
Sacchi, S. and J. Roh, 2016. Conditionality, austerity and welfare: Financial crisis and its impact on welfare in Italy and Korea. Journal of European Social Policy, 26, 358-373.
Bacchetta, M. and M. Jansen (eds.) 2011. Making globalization socially sustainable. International labour Office- World Trade Organization. (available online).
Welfare state and terrorism
Required reading
Krieger. T., Meierrieks, D. 2010. Terrorism in the worlds of welfare capitalism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 54, 902-939.
Further reading
Burgoon, B. 2006. On welfare and terror: Social welfare policies and political-economic roots of terrorism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50, 176-203.
Mulé. R. 2018. The political economy of violence and terrorism. Why less income inequality matters, paper presented at the conferenceInequality and Innovation, Bologna University, 21-22 June.
Teaching methods
Classes will involve lectures, presentations by guest speakers, and inter-active sessions in which students will have an opportunity to participate.Students will learn to use the Luxembourg Income Study dataset, describe and analyse comparative data on income inequality.
Assessment methods
class participation 10% grade
students’ presentation 25% grade
written paper 65% grade. 5,000 words including references, tables and graphs. Deadline for written paper 21 December 2018
Teaching tools
videos, slides, Luxembourg Income Study dataset
Office hours
See the website of Rosa Mulè